What Father Ted could teach Radovan Karadzic

I know it's not seemly. But I can't be the only person in Britain who is finding it difficult to take Radovan Karadzic's war-crimes trial at the Hague quite seriously enough. The trouble is that the defendant looks so exactly like Father Ted Crilly would look now, had his avatar, Dermot Morgan, not gone and got himself dead at the age of 45. If only, I keep thinking as I listen to Karadzic's comic excuses about holy war, he'd heeded Father Ted's own advice, as explained in one vintage episode to Ardal O'Hanlon's Father Dougal. Drawing a crude head shape, Ted explained that the things that went on inside the line were "dreams", while the stuff that went on outside it was "reality". Of course, when the reality is unspeakable genocide, the dreams of moral rectitude must be especially soothing. But you can't help musing, all the same, on how Karadzic and Morgan have never been seen together in the same room.